skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, StarLink may be profitable, especially if they continue to get RDOF funding from the government. I'm skeptical it would be profitable otherwise given the cost of the terminal. I don't believe their launch business will be profitable since the number of launches has been dropping every year, and they are becoming their main customer.
You're right! To be honest we got a bit overwhelmed by response and took down the free tickets. It would have been just too many folks for a zoom call. A mistake on my part :(

That said, if you want to stay in touch we created a google form to stay in the loop. Thank you for the feedback and sorry for inconvenience.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdhUEMiZnaWbHAhhioC...
Does this mean I don't need to permanently browse with Incognito now?

Using uBlock, Privacy Badger, Decentraleyes currently.
Hi Vivek, if you have a lot of response from the tech and engineering side but less so from people who have merchandising, buying, sourcing, operations side of selling physical goods, my good friend in NYC studied sustainable fashion and works in a large fashion retailer in a sourcing and buying role working with external vendors and internal creative and product folks and might be interested. She has a lot to say about working with small brands, sustainable product development, etc and helps them get their products to market daily. If you'd have extra seats for people on that side of the puzzle, let me know.
I don't. I don't want to have to carry a stupid phone around everywhere to get things done. I should only have to move my body between the places I go, and the various 24"+ screens I encounter, mostly at home and the office, should become my UI, and none of that should depend on carrying a stupid 6 inch device.

I like passwords + a YubiKey left permanently plugged into every device.
Exactly. And using white/black as synonyms for good/bad may be creating context (connotations, really) that we don't want. It would be fine if we hadn't already overloaded those words to refer to people... but, here we are. In the context we've created. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Where you’re born influences the person you become(2018)
Much worse than a digital watch from the 80s. (Maybe 70s?)
The pattern is simple. Collect metrics, filter, apply rules, alert.

The problem is, people try to put all of those pieces into a single product. This sometimes works, other times not. "Filter" and "apply rules" is the real work, and it's rather intractable. Some products embed a DSL to attempt to empower users to create these bits themselves.

Presumably the "AI" could write the filters and rules by "training" on some data. The AI can't automatically deduce the dimensions of your data like 'consider the time and day of this request' without instruction from the human. It can't conceptualize 'is a holiday/is not a holiday' without input from a human.

At the end of the day, just collect the metrics and write a small application with whatever alerting rules you want. This might not scale, but it might not need to.
yeah. if it ain't on a server / cloud no-one will be able to access it regardless of if it's in git or not.
the point of using python? ML libraries! that's the 99% case of python-only case.

Other than that, I actually don't know... a lot of other languages now have interpreted-dev envs...

(btw, I'd rather use Kotlin than java --- it's like Java++)
Former Google CEO and others call for US-China tech “bifurcation”
I just got one of those. Grr.

From: victoria@monetization-providers.com

Subject: Monetise Your Chrome Extension

I came across your extension on the Google chrome store and wanted to reach out to you to offer a way to increase revenue earnings from your extension. We are providing our partners with Bing landers and feeds that pays really well on extensions for search. It can earn up to $800 a month per 5000 users, and it is a premium product by invitation only. If your extension does not have search this is not a problem with a simple update this can be added, furthermore it is completely acceptable by google chrome store.

If this is something you would be interested in, I would be glad to schedule a call to discuss this with you! Also if you are looking to sell your extension we can discuss this opportunity as we buy extensions.

Victoria Jude

Business Development Manager

The sending domain was registered yesterday.
They load the image URL and observe the loading time. If it's fetched quickly, they know it was from cache. The server (controlled by the advertisers) can intentionally add delay to those image requests that makes detection reliable.
Perhaps, but you are talking about creating rather complex machinery in order to support a tiny feature. If the only argument in favor is engagement statistics (would those take edits into consideration as well?), I certainly see why Twitter doesn't care too much.
Biomimicry is fascinating. There's some good info at the Biomimicry Institute:

https://biomimicry.org
Muting words related to political topics or the meme of the week can make a huge improvement in your Twitter timeline.

I’m bummed that Twitter limits the mute list to only 200 words. I’m maxed out and have to remove a word when I want to mute a new one.
Improve the web and the world: remove all garbage third party javascript from your site.
Props to Slack, it's the only thing working well for me. GMail, GCP, Meet, all dragging and timing out in Boston.
How about pollen allergies? I estimate being under a minor allergic state that is hard to notice while taking your test doesn’t help anything.
> Those movements shouldn't expect cooperation from corporate platforms that are hostile to their cause.

Cool, so no Visa,MasterCard,Paypal,Comecast,AWS,Github,Uber,AA,Shell or Exxon gas,Youtube,Facebook,Twitter and basically every other corporate-owned service
This video brings up a crackpot theory I've been toying with. I know it's crazy, but I keep thinking about it.

The Fermi paradox asks, why haven't we found any alien probes? Why have we received no contact or evidence of aliens visiting Earth in the past? Why aren't there galactic-wide civilizations, or super advanced beings that have spread over the entire galaxy?

If there were such a being/civilization, perhaps their planning time horizon would be billions of years, instead of (optimistically) hundreds of years like for humans. With that magnitude of time horizon in mind, what might that civilization's colonization efforts or exploratory probes look like? What would their machines look like, if time was not a concern?

If 4 billion years is nothing to you, and assuming there really isn't a way around the speed of light, maybe sending self-assimilating, self-adapting machine "seeds" to all Earth-like planets is the most efficient way to expand or explore. Seeds that perfectly adapt to the environment they're exposed to, self-replicate, take over the planet, and then the solar system.

Sort of like the Protomolecule from The Expanse, instead of hijacking life, it hijacks raw materials, and was designed on a timescale of beings that think in terms of eons.
I agree that, by not having adopted the Euro, the UK was outside of a lot of the mess.

I still think the structural problems of weaker EU countries will cause more problems than benefits in the future for key nets contributors (like the UK was).

The Covid 750B€ fund, aptly named Next Generation EU (repayments will start in 2028), is another example of a worrying redistributive trend that makes me want to not be in the EU.
I commented on the main post, but First Party Isolation is exactly what you want, and breaks relatively few websites (and there's an extension to turn it on/off if you do use a website it breaks).
One of the tricky things with voting is that a provably trustworthy system that voters don't understand is worse than an imperfect system that is totally transparent. Voting is only useful to the extent there's trust in the system.
Same here. Seeing heavy packet loss to most (but not all) sites that route through verizondigitalmedia.com.customer.alter.net in NYC.
Agree. I've always wondered that if maybe I'd just been born 10 years earlier, if I might have been involved in some of this stuff instead of just a kid playing with the stuff they made. Watching it was a sort of reverse-vicarious experience.
I run Wipr on Safari. It's quite cheap, and since I don't use Safari as my main browser, the fact that there's nothing to configure is a bonus.

It was also easier to install it on my parents' computers than to convince them to change browsers.
As a Clojurian I just run static analysis

It can be nice to use an optional type/spec system to help with that but not required
Imagine ...

1. a -> b :: Function(a)[b]

(a, k1=t1, k2=t2) -> b :: Function(a, k1=t1, k2=t2)[b]

2. JSON = RecTypeVar('JSON', lambda Self: Union[None, bool, int, float, str, List[Self], Dict[str, Self]])

huh!
Pi-Hole/NextDNS also blocks adds in most apps. I used NextDNS (which has a limit on the free tier), and recently switched to pihole running on my home server. I also use ZeroTier to connect to my server directly even when I am not on my local network to still use it as the DNS server. Works great.
You and me both. I go to /r/wsb because I can see some 1047% ROI and some screenshots of people losing their life savings with comments like "That's what you get for betting agains't Papa Musk you f*king retard". It's just so surreal.
Scholarly Communication Technology Catalogue
Point us to anything showing that Metamask supports WebAuthn for this passwordless login use case.
Philly suburbs: Fios has been inconsistent for me for the last hour or so, starting around 11:00
Figure out what you really need and print it on good paper. Put that in a safe place, away from direct light and dampness.

Save the rest on two of Google Drive, OneDrive, iCloud, some other cloud storage, a backup service or copy to a computer in your home. Make your selection based on things that you will "touch" in some way at least every 12-24 months. Everything else will fail in a few years.

Don’t save crap you don’t need. Don't futz around with optical media, tape or other nonsense. Don't buy safes or safe deposit boxes unless that's going to be part of your routine in some way.
Yes, boo features. How dare other people be allowed to do things I don't want to do.
Have you possibly installed Firefox Focus mistakenly? I purposely use this version to force myself to stop hoarding tabs, at least on mobile devices. It sounds as though the main version of mobile Firefox has tabs.
Verizon on Twitter: “There's a fiber cut in Brooklyn. We have no ETR as of yet.”
Evergreen comment.
True. You can't remove the complexity, you just move it to another layer. This is great... until the thing isn't working, then you have to debug on a whole different layer, in a completely different kind of way.
I think Twitter would be okay if the history professor with the $1m Substack comes over to them and people like Glenn Greenwald stay at Substack though.
Verizon ISP System Outage
Those are compiled languages, while Python is an interpreted language. You're comparing apples and oranges.

Interpreted languages are quick to develop/quick to learn, and with the support of typing that same "quick prototype" can easily mature into a full application without needing to be re-written in a "real" language.
This reminds me of an experiment [1] we run a couple months back. We crawled top 100 Alexa websites and check the bloat in the images served to billions of users.

[1]: https://optidash.ai/blog/optimizing-images-on-the-worlds-top...
Apple Researching High-End Titanium MacBook Casings with Unique Textured Finish
Gauss's Day of Reckoning (2006)
Is there a good solution to rendering something like a react app to a static page? I feel like there are a lot of pages that don't really need client-side html rendering, but they have it because react is a good solution for modular web content.
Set up your docker file to be part of your CI so that your binary blobs are built from source with regularity? That’s typically the solution I’ve seen work well. Manually maintained stuff (especially for stuff that may not be the thing everyone is primarily doing) generally doesn’t scale well without automation (speaking as someone who’s seen organizations grow). This is also true of “getting started” guides. Can’t tell you how much maintenance and run time I’ve saved converting those wikis to Python scripts.
The contemporary left is too puritanical about the use of language for (far) left/right groups to even begin to have a dialogue. They've both had an antipathy towards big tech for a while now, but they're both spending all their bandwidth on one another.
I doubt any do.

Those things take maintenance. It'd be tough to transport them and any repair parts and needed personnel in and out without anyone ever noticing. Risks of discovery are pretty high, considering how many bugs and spies have been successfully snuck into most embassies. Hell, if I was going to plan such a thing, I'd probably rather stick it in a random building somewhere than in an embassy.

Maybe more importantly, if you've got a nuclear war in progress, it's not necessarily such a good idea to kill the only people who can surrender.
It is possible to get ITAR authorization without being a US citizen or permanent resident. However, it is a long and arduous process, and even then those employees are restricted from some information. For that reason, it probably won't be considered unless you are very highly qualified.

If I were you, I'd read up on ITAR qualification and, if you think you would be eligible and are highly qualified, just apply.
Funny to think about now with hindsight - but a prototype version of the Magic Leap One.

It was an incredibly novel feeling of seeing the room I was in get mapped out, furniture and all, to see interfaces and 3d models rendered in a way that felt interactable in real space. Moving renders of objects around to see how things could be - well, it was just a lot of fun; it felt like playing with a new video game console as a child.

Sure, the overall experience was clunky, with the motion tracking and sub-par lenses constantly reminding you that it was only a prototype, but that first interaction excites you about all the things that could be possible if it actually is refined into a final product. Perhaps this was the same experience that led many of the early investors to put so much faith in Magic Leap while there was still a long road ahead of them.
Maybe they should crack down on how awful the UI has become.
How secure is your “security” camera?
Sticky Ducky is a nice plugin for that.
A database of names and addresses does not tell you who in that list is a minority. You can't do:

SELECT address AS to_harm WHERE sexual_orientation IN ('unusual');
Answering your first question:
When talking about the interface we need to separate: the data protocol and the developer experience (DX) creating & maintaining a connector. We believe the data protocol we have in place should address 95% of the use cases and, as we get more sophisticated use cases we will evolve the protocol (for example for more scale). Regarding the DX, we are continuously working on it to make it a breeze and ensure super high quality.

Answering your second question:
Fivetran functions are a nice escape hatch but none of the users we talked to mentioned those. They always mentioned building inhouse for missing connectors. My interpretation is that this is too much of a vendor lock-in for a cloud-based product.
> In 2018, for instance, there were approximately 36,400 newly infected patients living with HIV in the U.S.

This number seems insane to me in the USA. Why is a well known deadly disease, with well understood transmission vectors, still spreading so prominently here?
Ask HN: What resources are available for hacking victims?
1: I feel like I'm hacked, I can't do anything, I'm completely mentally paralyzed because of it. I badly need help. I would be grateful if those of you knowledgeable in cybersecurity can advise me on what services/types of companies or organizations are available that I can make use of to fix my hacking problem. There's more text that I'm adding as a reply or comment.
It's really more like 4%, and falling every year.

My job is not to drive users to Firefox. My job is to create a product that people can use. And in my particular case, my job involves creating a product that doesn't physically harm people.

I agree that browser monoculture is a problem. But there is another problem that Mozilla is not the company that is helping with the problem.

EDIT: to go a little further on this, it's not physically possible to create a good WebXR experience in Firefox, at this time. Despite their announcements of focusing on Hubs as one of the few projects they kept around after the most recent purge, there are key technologies that are fundamentally missing from Firefox that have no replacement. And then they have the termerity to user-agent sniff Chromium browsers on desktop PCs and tell you that they supposedly don't support WebXR, that you need to download Firefox to use Hubs. So it seems even Mozilla doesn't really give a shit about the Open Web.
Facebook, please stop killing good products
I mean, look at how much Saudi venture capital - and MBS himself - is involved in Silicon Valley. https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/1/18511540/silicon-valley-...
Fire That Killed Hsieh May Have Been Carelessness or Intentional, Officials Say
> Shards increase the number of failure modes and increase the complexity of those failure modes.

I would only agree with this during the initial implementation of sharding. Once deployed and stable, I have not found this to be the case, at all.

I say this as someone who has directly architected a sharded database layer that scaled to over a trillion rows, and later worked on core automation and operations for sharded databases that scaled to an incalculable number of rows (easily over 1 quadrillion).

In both cases, each company's non-sharded databases were FAR more operationally problematic than the sharded ones. The sharded database tiers behave in common ways with relatively uniform workloads, and the non-sharded databases were each special snowflakes using different obscure features of the database.

> keep it simple, don't shard until you need

I would have wholeheartedly agreed with this until a few years ago. Cloud storage now permits many companies to run monster 10+ TB monolithic relational databases. Technically these companies no longer "need" to shard, possibly ever. But at these data sizes, many operations become extremely painful, problematic, and slow.
its most likely your companies RDP infrastructure (or local environment) operates on AWS. Which is down because of this "cut"
The irony that Google has initiatives like AMP to speed up page loading-- supposedly. Check out the Texas anti-trust filing for other possible reasons for AMP..
2: I feel like randoms are going into my accounts or can see screens of my devices live (they seem to be reacting to what I do on my devices/the internet). How do I check if/where my passwords or session cookies or something that would allow anyone to get into my accounts are exposed? Or if/where my screens are exposed? Are there companies/organizations that can search the internet for you and tell you if/where you're exposed? Are there any remote malware removal or malware analysis companies I can use that can completely get rid of malware (I don't think places like geek squad and micro center would be of any use, I might have some really bad malware on my computers and phone and need something more capable)?. I tried amazon eero a while ago and it definitely picked up spyware on my computer and phone (I have screenshots indicating it), I've reinstalled windows and reset my phone and malware still seems to be there. Pressing a random key on the chrome address bar types the letter a like 50 times when the letter a was not pressed, I get phone calls when I'm feeling vulnerable as a form of intimidation as if I'm being watched (attacker seems to be using an ai voice generation social engineering tool, I'm not sure if this is the right terminology). Hundreds if not thousands of fake profiles with images from rural india show up in the people you may know section in my facebook account and weird stuff like this happens to me often. Should I also consider switching to macbook and iphone from windows 10 and pixel 3a? Are there any companies I can use that can do everything and ensure that I have privacy? I can't function, I'm completely mentally paralyzed because of it. I would be grateful if I can get advise here on what to do. I'm not familiar with the hackernews website and might have posted this in the wrong way. Thank you.
With such a high capacity drive I wonder if they changed anything in terms of redundancy - something like zfs resilvering prob takes days on these
I'm tempted to suggest the linked article be changed to: https://www.beyondidentity.com/blog/why-we-made-passwordless...

the actual blog post from Beyond Identity.

was really frustrated when the first link in the darkreading article just linked out to _another_ darkreading article. Like....wtf?
I keep seeing this sentiment, but the fact is his other documentary Icarus was HUGE on Netflix, and if The Dissident pops up on millions of people's feed saying "From the creator of Icarus!!", millions of people would watch it.

Them not being interested is suspiciously leaving a huge pile of money on the table.
If a Backblaze engineer (or Andy) is reading this, could you comment on environmental temps and vibration you guys keep the disks at? Thanks.
O'Reilly animals give such touch to the books!
“Even if this article is accurate, it doesn’t really mean much” millions of users (to start) moving away from a platform does matter; it matters for those users and could evolve into a larger movement in time.

“Let’s assume they fully moved and stopped using WhatsApp (very unlikely)” why is this “very unlikely”, I’ve uninstalled WhatsApp, I will never install WhatsApp again, ever. I guess I’m part of the “very unlikely” group.
There is no need for FSD, just a simpler AI/sensors that detects collision and breaks before the driver does (which is already a feature in some cars)
Using Next.js for Packaged Software
Ads are usually the number one culprit why simple "news" pages take sometimes dozens of seconds to finish loading, (and in some egregiously engineered designs, the page is unusable until every last script/ad and font has loaded), and spawn several processes and consume hundreds of megabytes of memory and utilise 50% of your i7/i9 3000MHz CPU, all for displaying a news page or an article.

The JS for actual essential site functionality often pales in comparison to the assets and scripts activated by ads, which simultaneously track you.
It's easier to find tyvek sleeves that are sold as being suitable for archive purposes.
I was wondering if the state of the world in 2020 might have dramatically changed their business / throughput / access patterns in a meaningful enough way to cause this dip.

I'm not sure if they have a measure of the disk utilization or read/write load along with the failure rate.
Ex-CIA engineer tells judge he's incarcerated like an animal
I don't. I mean, if it's a news site just search for the title in a search engine and you'll find other articles. If it's a web application I search for an alternative and bookmark that. If you really want to avoid even loading it, you can just block the whole site with your adblocker but I don't go that far.
Similar thoughts (btw I came here looking for your comment ha!).

I guess you had mentioned in one of the videos that at Fivetran, it is your responsibility to ensure data integrity across all of the sources/integrations, and has been since the early days. This led the customers to trust the product in the early days and the team to draw learnings from abstract patterns across sources.

Have come to believe that it is THE MOST important thing to have an explicit ownership for issues whenever there is physical movement of data across an org's ecosystem.